Re: Is there a CGI module kicking around?

[Duke Normandin]

On 30/03/2012 1:20 AM, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> > Have you guys heard of such a Sather module?
> Not me.  Not a Sather CGI class that I know of.  I guess I'd use PHP
> on Apache if I wanted something like that.

I first used PHP over 15 years ago. If I ever would use PHP again, I 
would do so in unison with Hiawatha as a web server. :)

> > How about a SQL module of some sort - mysql; postgress; sqlite3??
> Yes!  David W. Simons wrote something called pgsaql, an interface to
> PostgreSQL.  Years ago.  I've been using it ever since.  There are
> recently-added libpg query and other functions not included.  It makes
> a connection and does PQexec(), whose argument is an SQL query string,
> but (from memory) not PQexecParams() which takes typed arguments.
Well that's a plus! Is that Sather's default "hook" into the nether 
world of databases, or is there another more "native" approach?

> > Is there a repository somewhere?
> Dunno.  He offered it as new classes for the GNU Sather library but
> the maintainer at the time didn't take it up.  (Not for any good
> reason - there's nothing wrong with it.)  May be now in the contribs
> file at ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/sather though I haven't checked it yet.
>
> Give me a week or two (don't tie me down!) and I'll put a version of
> Sather there that has a Contribs directory with pgsaql in it.  It or
> an update will eventually be Sather library classes.

What you refer to as "the GNU Sather library" is what I meant by "a 
repository". Is this library available "online", or is it simply a 
part of the Sather language package?

Thanks for the info. No pressure here! I'm test-driving and working 
through the docs.

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Duke

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Duke